Local Government Dollars & Sense: 225 Financial Tips for Guarding the Public Checkbook - Hardcover

Wood, Len

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0963437437 ISBN 13: 9780963437433

Publisher: Training Shoppe, 1998

Synopsis

Wood is a consultant and often pinch hits for cities while they hire a permanent city manager. His guide for officials avoids technical detail, focuses entirely on local finance and budgets, and takes examples and anecdotes from local governments across the US. He includes a glossary without pronunciation. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About this title

About the Author:

Len Wood is President of Len Wood & Associates, a leading training and consulting firm to local government specializing in public management, budgeting and financial issues. Len Wood spent over twenty-three years in local government, fourteen of which were as City Manager in the Cities of Rancho Palos Verdes and Claremont, California. Len has also served as a professor at the Graduate Center of Public Policy and Administration at California State University, Long Beach and Cal Poly Pomona. He has a Master's Degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California and a Bachelors Degree in Political Science from California State University at Long Beach. Len is the author of three other local government books, the Commissioner's Little Handbook, the Little Budget Book and the Elected Official's Little Handbook.

Review:

Every concerned taxpayer should read this insightful commentary on how to provide fiscal oversight and avoid a variety of pitfalls. -- Weyrich Reviews

This is a must read. It includes great case studies and easily understood explanations of sometimes complex financial information. -- Small Cities Publishing

About this edition

• Publisher: Training Shoppe
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0963437437
• ISBN 13: 9780963437433
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 384